Medicine: Permissiveness for Parents

Though the millions of squalling young Americans whose lives would be
most affected knew nothing about it, there was Dig news for babies this
week. Clattering off the presses was a revised version of the gospel by
which half a U.S. generation has been raised: The Common Sense Book of
Baby and Child Care, by Pediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock (Duell,
Sloan & Pearce, $5; Pocket Books, 50¢). To the original edition, which
has sold more than 9,000,000 copies since 1946, Author Spock has added
some 100 pages. The gist of his revisions and additions reflects the
changing climate of the past...